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Versacare Foundation Awards $1.15 Million to Adventist Schools to Support STEM Education

The foundation’s STEM grant program is open to all conference or church-sponsored primary or secondary schools in the North American Division.

March 28, 2019|Riverside, Calif.|Versacare Foundation, Inc.

The Versacare Foundation is the largest independent private foundation supporting the varied ministries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church with grant funding. Image: Versacare Foundation, Inc

On March 8, the Versacare Foundation awarded $1,159,000 in grant funding to Adventist Education, including $920,000 to 118 primary and secondary schools across the United States and Canada in support of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) education.

The STEM grant program is open to every conference or church sponsored primary or secondary school in the North American Division and provides funding in three categories: $5,000 for smaller schools of three or fewer classrooms; $10,000 for larger schools of four or more classrooms and 12-year schools; and $10,000 for senior academies.

In the United States, a total of $835,000 was given to schools within eight Unions, 38 Conferences, and 108 schools. In Canada, the foundation awarded a total of $85,000 to four Conferences and 10 schools.

For more information about Versacare’s STEM grant program, visit versacare.org.

Versacare, Inc. is the largest independent private foundation supporting the varied ministries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church with grant funding. A self-funded lay organization, it is comprised of both lay Adventists and present and former Adventist Church employees. It awarded its first grants in 1990, totaling $26,000, to five different Adventist ministries. Since then, it has awarded nearly 1,200 grants totaling over $26,000,000.

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